Saturday, May 14, 2011

Jay Cooke State Park: The Oldenberg Cascades

st louis river cascades
Today Noelle, Parker, Mom and I headed out to Jay Cooke to do a little bit of hiking on this chilly spring day. I really wanted to hike the trail that heads down to the river from the Oldenberg Point overlook because we'd never checked it out before. And so we headed out on a muddy trail descending some steep stairs to the river.
hiking to river
Once at the river level we found a nice rock outcropping from which we relaxed and looked at the foaming, churning cascades.
watching cascades
Noelle & cascades
cedar & cascades
 After a while of checking out the scene at the river we went back up the steep stairs and hiked a wet, muddy loop trail. There were lots of flowers just about to bloom , but other than a few violets
violets
and bellworts, nothing was quite in bloom yet.

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